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Sorry, I couldn’t resist the pun.

I don’t know how I missed this one on China Music Radar, nor all over Douban, but…

New Pants are split­ting with Mod­ern Sky Records after a whop­ping thir­teen years together. The final straw appears to be Mod­ern Sky list­ing them on the bill of the Straw­berry Fes­ti­val… with­out actu­ally ask­ing them first.

This doesn’t sur­prise me, as last year Con­ve­nience Store split from Mod­ern Sky as well (before split­ting alto­gether), cit­ing cre­ative dif­fer­ences. I just hope that los­ing New Pants, one of the biggest and most influ­en­tial rock groups, kicks some sense into man­age­ment at the label.

As for Straw­berry, New Pants will be replaced by SuperVC.